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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708460
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 933

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title Annals of the Former World. Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a multilayered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it. As clearly and succinctly written as it is profoundly informed, this is our finest popular survey of geology and a masterpiece of modern nonfiction. Annals of the Former World is the winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473362512
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species' is an article that details Wallace's ideas on the natural arrangement of species and their successive creation. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.

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Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Author: Sir James Emerson Tennent
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Category : Elephants
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
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Category : Demodicidae
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Francis Martin Duncan
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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